Patents Assigned to 23andMe, Inc.
  • Patent number: 10854318
    Abstract: Inferring a characteristic of an individual is disclosed. An indication that a first user and a second user have at least one shared chromosomal segment is received. Information about the second user is obtained. A characteristic of the first user is inferred based at least in part on the information about the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael Macpherson, Brian Thomas Naughton, Joanna Louise Mountain
  • Patent number: 10841312
    Abstract: Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lee Hawthorne, Oleksiy Khomenko, Jeffrey Mellen, Marcela Miyazawa, Michael Polcari, Jack Tihon, Alexander Wong, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Patent number: 10790041
    Abstract: A technique of using collaborative family medical history (CFMH) to estimate disease risk includes establishing CFMH information of a user and a plurality of relatives of the user, the CFMH information including genetic information of at least some of the family members, genetic information of the user, or both. It further includes analyzing the CFMH information, including the genetic information. It further includes determining a potential risk condition of the user and a potential risk condition of at least a family member based on the CFMH information. It also includes outputting the potential risk condition of the user and the potential risk condition of the at least one family member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: John Michael Macpherson, Joanna Sim, Brian Thomas Naughton, Michael Polcari
  • Patent number: 10777302
    Abstract: Processing genetic information comprises: receiving an input that includes information pertaining to a specific genetic variant; and identifying, in a database comprising genotype information of a plurality of candidate individuals, a matching individual imputed to have the specific genetic variant. The genotype information of the matching individual corresponding to the specific genetic variant is not directly assayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnab Chowdry, Geoffrey Benton, Brian Thomas Naughton
  • Patent number: 10755805
    Abstract: Presenting ancestral origin information, comprising: receiving a request to display ancestry data of an individual; obtaining ancestry composition information of the individual, the ancestry composition information including information pertaining to a proportion of the individual's genotype data that is deemed to correspond to a specific ancestry; and presenting the ancestry composition information to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Chuong Do, Eric Durand, John Michael Macpherson
  • Patent number: 10699803
    Abstract: Presenting ancestral origin information, comprising: receiving a request to display ancestry data of an individual; obtaining ancestry composition information of the individual, the ancestry composition information including information pertaining to a proportion of the individual's genotype data that is deemed to correspond to a specific ancestry; and presenting the ancestry composition information to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Chuong Do, Eric Durand, John Michael Macpherson
  • Publication number: 20200199217
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding proteins, such as antibodies and antigen-binding fragments, which specifically bind to human IL-36 cytokines, IL-36?, IL-36?, and/or IL-36?, and block the IL-36 stimulated signaling pathways. Compositions comprising such binding proteins and methods of making and using such binding proteins are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Chingwei Vivian LEE, Germaine FUH-KELLY, Louise SCHARF, Tina THAI, Ashka Bharat PATEL, Shashank BHARILL, Erik Edward KARRER
  • Publication number: 20200199227
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides binding proteins, such as antibodies and antigen-binding fragments, which specifically bind to human CD96 receptor protein (hu-CD96) and are capable of decreasing, inhibiting, and/or fully-blocking immune regulatory effects mediated by hu-CD96. The present disclosure also provides methods of using the antibodies (and compositions thereof) to treat diseases and conditions responsive to decreasing, inhibiting and/or blocking immune regulatory function or activity mediated by CD96 binding to CD155, including effects arising from CD96 interactions with CD226 and/or TIGIT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Yu CHEN, Chingwei Vivian LEE, Germaine FUH-KELLY, Zuoan YI, Yao-ming HUANG, Valentine YEUNG, Krista Maureen MCCUTCHEON, Samuel NALLE, Augusta Eleanor BROUGHTON, Louise SCHARF, Navneet SINGH, Tina THAI, Shouhua XIAO
  • Patent number: 10691725
    Abstract: Databases and data processing systems for use with a network-based personal genetics services platform may include member information pertaining to a plurality of members of the network-based personal genetics services platform. The member information may include genetic information, family history information, environmental information, and phenotype information of the plurality of members. A data processing system may determine, based at least in part on the member information, a model for predicting a phenotype from genetic information, family history information, and environmental information, wherein determining the model includes training the model using the member information pertaining to a set of the plurality of members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Naughton, Chuong Do, John Michael Macpherson
  • Patent number: 10658071
    Abstract: Ancestry deconvolution includes obtaining unphased genotype data of an individual; phasing, using one or more processors, the unphased genotype data to generate phased haplotype data; using a learning machine to classify portions of the phased haplotype data as corresponding to specific ancestries respectively and generate initial classification results; and correcting errors in the initial classification results to generate modified classification results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Chuong Do, Eric Yves Jean-Marc Durand, John Michael Macpherson
  • Patent number: 10643740
    Abstract: Displaying a comparison of genetic data is disclosed, including receiving an indication of a first individual, receiving an indication of a second individual, retrieving the genotypic information for the first individual and the second individual, comparing the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual, displaying an indication of the comparison of the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual graphically. A first graphical symbol is used to display an indication of the genome regions for which the first individual and the second individual are identical. A second graphical symbol is used to display an indication of the genome regions for which the first individual and the second individual are half identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Linda Avey, Oleksiy Khomenko, Brian Thomas Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Anne Wojcicki, Alexander Wong
  • Publication number: 20200095328
    Abstract: The present invention provides binding proteins, such as antibodies and antigen-binding fragments, which specifically bind to human interleukin-1 receptor accessory protein (hu-IL1RAP) and fully block the IL-1, IL-33, and IL-36 intracellular signaling pathways. Compositions comprising such binding proteins and methods of making and using such binding proteins are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Davide Foletti, Erik Karrer, Germaine Fuh, Kristie Ibarra, Quan Zheng, Yao-ming Huang, Lindsay Deis, Christine Wolak, Dominic Samuel Berns
  • Patent number: 10572831
    Abstract: Presenting ancestral origin information, comprising: receiving a request to display ancestry data of an individual; obtaining ancestry composition information of the individual, the ancestry composition information including information pertaining to a proportion of the individual's genotype data that is deemed to correspond to a specific ancestry; and presenting the ancestry composition information to be displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Chuong Do, Eric Durand, John Michael MacPherson
  • Patent number: 10516670
    Abstract: Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lee Hawthorne, Oleksiy Khomenko, Jeffrey Mellen, Marcela Miyazawa, Michael Polcari, Jack Tihon, Alexander Wong, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Patent number: 10437858
    Abstract: Databases and data processing systems for use with a network-based personal genetics services platform may include member information pertaining to a plurality of members of the network-based personal genetics services platform. The member information may include genetic information, family history information, environmental information, and phenotype information of the plurality of members. A data processing system may determine, based at least in part on the member information, a model for predicting a phenotype from genetic information, family history information, and environmental information, wherein determining the model includes training the model using the member information pertaining to a set of the plurality of members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Naughton, Chuong Do, John Michael Macpherson
  • Patent number: 10432640
    Abstract: Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the plurality of first account profiles to the second account, wherein sharing comprises the second account having read access to a subset of nonpublic data associated with the plurality of first account profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Lee Hawthorne, Oleksiy Khomenko, Jeffrey Mellen, Marcela Miyazawa, Michael Polcari, Jack Tihon, Alexander Wong, Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey
  • Patent number: D886835
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Linda Avey, Oleksiy Khomenko, Brian Thomas Naugton, Serge Saxonov, Anne Wojcicki, Alexander Wong
  • Patent number: D888083
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Peilun Shan, Jie Wei, Magdalene Misztal, Brad Kittredge, Caitlyn Elizabeth Adams, Afton Kerry Vechery, Vilia Ingriany, Timmy Chau, Claudio Guglieri Lillo, Sampo Aleksi Jalasto, Joel Parsons, Jesse Jouni Sakari Maula
  • Patent number: D889509
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventor: Sooyun Choi
  • Patent number: D891470
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: 23andMe, Inc.
    Inventors: Peilun Shan, Jie Wei, Magdalene Misztal, Brad Kittredge, Caitlyn Elizabeth Adams, Afton Kerry Vechery, Vilia Ingriany, Timmy Chau, Claudio Guglieri Lillo, Sampo Aleksi Jalasto, Joel Parsons, Jesse Jouni Sakari Maula